Letters to the editor, March 12

Over the last couple of years in Texas,
there has been an all-out attack on women’s access to health care, attempts to
pass the nation’s most extreme voter suppression laws, tens of thousands of
teacher layoffs and many school closings because of cuts in education funding.

Latest statistics show 26 percent of
Texas children are living in poverty. Good public education is a good and
necessary expense.

Dolores Vann,

Denton

Pointing
fingers

To James Caldwell [DRC, March 2]: First,
I own five guns — three rifles, a shotgun and a pistol.

The rifles include two bolt-action
former infantry weapons, and the other is a lever-action first immortalized by
the U.S. Cavalry against Native Americans. The shotgun is a single-shot
12-gauge that I have taken quail with. That was 30 years ago.

The pistol was given to me by a
brother-in-law, who is now a retired police officer. He gave it to me because
two pistols I had bought for myself were stolen and sold for cigarette money. I
have never loaded or fired it.

I suppose the rifles could be considered
“assault weapons” since their original use was military.

That said, I find no reason to oppose
background checks for all gun sales. I had to have one to get a visa to a
Central-American country. Passed with flying colors.

I certainly hope no school security
officer pulls up to my great-grandchildren’s school in any model of tank, with
or without the .50-caliber. I have no idea why any police department would need
a Blackhawk, or in these days of tight budgets, could find funds to operate
one.

Grenade launchers? Maybe I could see an
M-16 in their trunk.

Wow, Lee Nahrgang [DRC, March 2], what
an emotional, ideological tirade. Just remember when pointing fingers, three
always point back at oneself.

Franklin “Mac” Poe,

Denton

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